Small Used Cars Are Hot Sellers — If You Can Find One
By John Voket
According to the Better Business Bureau of Connecticut, as drivers watched gasol...
Occupation: I work for Ability Beyond Disability as a job coach, bringing clients to Duracell where they work and offering them guidance. I also work as a d...
Principals Start Communicating—
Lease Negotiations For Hawleyville PO Point Toward A Resolution
By Nancy K. Crevier
Hawleyville Post Office Postmast...
Newtown Resident Studying
 To Be A Principal
When her students head home from school, the learning is just beginning for Newtown resident Tina Hislop, an assis...
Adopt From The Animal Center
The following kittens/cats are up for adoption through The Animal Center:
SMOKEY is a playful 6-month-old kitten. Smokey likes ...
Bee Calendars Available
The ever-popular Newtown Bee calendar for the year 2011 is now available at The Bee’s offices at 5 Church Hill Road. Many pe...
Veterans’ Day Assembly
To Be Held At NHS
Newtown High School will be hosting a Veterans’ Day Assembly on Monday, November 10, at 1 pm, ...
A Celtic Christmas Craft Fair
DANBURY — The Ancient Order of Hibernians of Greater Danbury will host its first Celtic Christmas Craft Fair on Saturd...
Unnecessary Constraints
To the Editor:
The definition of community is people helping other people and when that happens, everyone wins. Community is the antithe...
Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.
The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).
Newtown schools have degraded over the 3+ decades I've lived here as the concentrated social experiment curricula driven by the state and small but loud groups. Yet we continue to dig into our pockets while we witness the downward spiral.